Timothy B. Schmit famous quotes

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.
-- Timothy B. Schmit

#Writing #Player #Eagles

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.
-- Timothy B. Schmit

#Talking #Band #Compromise

I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.
-- Timothy B. Schmit

#Song #Father #Rock And Roll

When I was about 13 or 14. I was in a Kingston Trio type group. We evolved into the New Breed. Our first song on the radio was "Green Eyed Woman," not to be confused with "Green Eyed Lady".
-- Timothy B. Schmit

#Song #Confused #Trios

Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.
-- Timothy B. Schmit

#Wings #Band #Crowds

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

I'm not a good guitar player.

Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.

What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.